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[alexr_rwx]

Weird moment: looking at some stuff I wrote a few weeks ago, I had a very vivid sense of sitting in the place where I wrote it, which was the lounge by the lobby in the music building at UGA.

Does this happen for anybody else? Or maybe other people don't do work in as many different places? ...

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Also: public service announcement that you should go vote! Tomorrow is election day, but you already knew! Save the world! Unless of course Diebold (major GOP supporter and likely the manufacturer of your electronic voting machine) decides that they don't like your views and chooses to disenfranchise you! I expect that my absentee ballot will likely not get counted, as Florida elections have already been reported Quite Shady! Also! Why did they bother with touchscreens that can get "miscalibrated" when they could have installed Plain Ol' Buttons Like On ATMs? !

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[gtv42.livejournal.com]

As I understand Things, the tape is on a continuous roll, with symbolic demarcations between voters.

I'd venture that no one recording method should be The Authoritative Vote, assuming everything is being executed with the greatest intentions of fairness and honesty. Paper is bulky and difficult to copy. The copies are difficult to error check. Three advantages for electronic storage. The authoritative vote is the tally that the electronic and paper recordings agree with--each needs to have veto power over the other. In the event of a true Close Call (election result within discrepancy between electronic and paper tallies), if there can be no reconcilliation, there should be another vote on the issue.